Cutting table



Aug. 26 1924. 1,506,368

v c. FANCHE'R CUTTING TABLE Fil ed Feb. 26 192;

V y. M

M I z/z/ Patented Aug. 2%, 1924.

UNETEE) STATES CLARENCE FANCHER, 05: HUDSON FALLS, NEW YORK.

CUTTING Application filed. February 26, 1923.

To aZZ whom z't may concern Be it known that I, CLARENCE FANCHER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Hudson Falls, in the county ofVVashington and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Cutting Tables, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to what may be termed devices especially adaptedfor severing or dividing up drawing linen or paper into the usualrequired sized pieces or sheets to meet the wants or conveniences of thedraftsman in the drafting room and the trade in keeping the same instock for sale.

The invention has for its object, among other things, to carry out theseends with facility, simplicity and inexpensively; to provide againstmiss-cuts and accordingly wastage of drawing-linen or paper; to providefor gauging the depth of the penetration of the severinginstrument-ality or knife in cutting the material or linen, as well asto provide for the assured straight-cutting thereof.

Other objects of the invention will be apparent together with theforegoing, from the following further disclosure of the invention.

The invention therefore consists of certain instrumentalities andfeatures of construction substantially as hereinafter more fullydisclosed and pointed out by the appended claims.

In the drawing accompanying the following specification and disclosingthe preferred embodiment or one form of my invention it will beunderstood that various changes and modifications as relate to thedetailed construction and arrangement of parts may be made withoutdeparting from the spirit of my invention as covered by the appendedclaims and in which drawing Fig. 1. is a broken plan view of the devicedisclosing the embodiment of my invention, parts being broken away.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken through the drawing-linen orpaper holding clamps.

Fig. 3 is a similar vertical section taken through the device at rightangles to the line of 2.

Fig. 4: is a detached perspective showing a clamp with its resilient orspring retaining member.

Fig. 5 is a like View as relates to the trac- TABLE.

Serial No. 621,877.

ing linen or paper clamp, a screw and lever member however, substitutingthe clamp retaining resilient or spring member.

As characteristic features of my invention, I employ a plurality ornumber of sections 1, preferably of smooth plane boards or panels havingunder and over projecting interfitting edges. These sections arerectangular in general outline and assembled for mutual cooperation,being hinged together as at 2, preferably along their longitudinal edgesat suitable points or at the eX treme ends upon alternate opposite sidesthereof, whereby they (said sections) may be, and are thus adapted tofold compactly upon each other as disclosed for ready shipment orstorage. These sections or result-ant leaves forming what is termed atable, are further hinged, or rather the lateral or side ones, at theirends, as at 3, to transverse end member 3 the connections or hingingbeing effected therebetween upon the same sides of the end members 3"and the corresponding or end leaves 1. The leaves are arranged so as toprovide therebetween narrow longitudinal and transverse spaces 8 and 9traversing each other, respectively, throughout, which provides for theinsertion thereinto, of say a pocket knife, and the suitable severing ofthe tracing linen or drawing paper into the required sized sheetsaccordingly, as may be provided for by the relative graduation apart ofthe spaces.

Suitably constructed or shaped clamps with penetrating points on underside 10 are arranged or secured at the end of the leaves or members 1 ofthe table and when clamped down the points penetrate the linen ortracing cloth as shown, which is clamped down and effectively heldthereon, the under projecting points securely holding the linen whenmaking the final cuts, the linen or tracing cloth being carriedinitially over the members t and; under the clamps when raised, asshown. The clamps, themselves, are suitably held in position by means ofresilient member 11 suitably secured to the table and adapted to allowthe clamps to be elevated and automatically held thereby as indicated indotted lines when initially applying and securing the linen or tracingcloth upon the table, the clamps, of course, being sprung down inholding position upon the tracing material by suitably tripping theresilient members, as seen in e isclosure.

The tableleaves or sections, it will be noted, are stepped at theirinitial adjacent edges as at 12 to provide for limiting the extent ofthe penetration of the tracinglinen severing knife and thus provide formaintaining a straight cut of said edges, otherwise stated to obviate amiss-cut or miss-cuts, as previously stated.

The modified form of clamp-retaining device, designated as 13, in Fig. 5comprises, as above indicated, a screw-threaded bot member 13* suitablythreaded preferably into one of the hinge leaves or sections and havinga handle or arm 13 which is adapted, by suitably grasping and turningthe same so as to cause it to suitably frictionally engage the uppersurface of the clamp, whereupon said arm or handle will produce abindingaction thereon and thus secure the clamp in effective or lockedposition. It is to be understood, of course, that my table or device asherein described in detail or requiring the use of expedients incarrying out the same is not restricted or limited as relates to thebreadth and scope of the claims, to any additional appendage or means ofsup ort therefor in facilitating the utilizing t e same, although suchmay be shown in connection with the drawing or implied by thedescription as may be read.

into the specification.

I claim:

' 1. A device of the type described, comprising a sectional table whosesections or leaves are hingedly or foldably assembled together, withintermediate lines of spaces between said leaves or sections extendingtransversel and longitudinally throughout the same whereby a cuttingmember may be inserted within said spaces and drawn along the same.

2. A device of the type described, comprising a sectional table whosesections or leaves are hingedly or foldably assembled together withintermediate lines of spaces between said leaves or sections extendingtransversely and longitudinally throughout the same whereby a cuttingmember may be inserted in said spaces and drawn along the same, saidtable also being portable.

3. A device of the type described, com prising a table formed of aplurality of leaves or sections hingedly connected together at alternateopposite sides with intermediate lines of spaces therebetween extendingtransversely and longitudinally through out the same whereby a cuttingmember may be inserted in said spaces and be drawn along the same.

4c. A device of the type described comprising sectional table whosesections or leaves are hingedly or foldably assembled together, withintermediate lines of spaces extending longitudinally and transverselythroughout, the adjacent walls of said sections or leaves being stepped,whereby a cutting member may be inserted within said spaces to be drawntherealong, but the depth of penetration of the cutting member will belimited by the stepped edges.

5. A device of the type described, including a table comprising aplurality of sections, with a plurality of longitudinal and transversestraight line spaces therebetween, said sections being hingedly orfoldably assembled together, clamps with penetrating points on underside applied to said leaves or sections for the retention of the work tobe operated upon in position thereon, and means for holding said clampsin place upon said table.

6. A device of the type described comprising a table formed of aplurality of sections hingedly or foldably and portably assembledtogether, said sections or leaves being arranged to provide longitudinaland transverse spaces therebetween and having their walls formed withinterfitting steps which are to be spaced apart, said spaces beingadapted for the insertion therein of an instrumentality for severing thework laid upon the table to be operated upon as said instrumentality ispassed into said spaces.

7. A device of the character described comprising a table formed of aplurality of sections hingedly connected together so as to be folded toform a portable structure, the sections having their walls oppositelystepped and fitted together so as to leave a space between each sectionand its neighbor-- ing sections, whereby a cutting member may beinserted within the spaces thus formed and drawn therealong to sever thework laid upon the table, the stepped portion of the sections serving tolimit the depth to

